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Defense department endorses open-source software
Enterprises looking toward the federal government for technological inspiration got a healthy dose of it recently when the Department of Defense authorized the use of open-source software within its ranks. |
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Oracle Upbeat On Linux-based Solutions
Enterprise solution major Oracle is aggressively promoting its solutions on the Linux operating system, which it hopes will help enterprises cut their information technology expenditure by at least 25 per cent. |
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Linux migration makes downtime dumps disappear
When you're in the business of providing customer service for other businesses, you don't want to be caught with your plants down. So, continuing CPU failures and maintenance-related server downtime at customer service centers posed a costly headache |
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Guitar maker plays a Linux tune
MUSICIANS MIGHT RECOGNIZE the name Ernie Ball as an icon credited with being an electric guitar industry pioneer. Ernie Ball Inc., the global manufacturer of guitar strings, electric guitars and basses, that bears his name, is now making a name for i |
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Open Source Architecture To Create a Scalable Enterprise
Enterprise customers often resort to costly, inflexible, solutions from proprietary vendors as they look to build or upgrade infrastructure for deploying and managing business applications. Frequently key infrastructure solutions are sourced from dis |
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Infopia keeps Linux, cuts costs with outsourcing
Since day one back in 1999, the IT folks at Infopia Inc. have used and built their IT infrastructure around Linux and freeware. Linux fit the bill as a lean, keen operating environment for this provider of online marketing services and solutions for |
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Oracle Developers Switch Allegiance to Linux
Oracle Corp's army of about 5,000 internal applications developers have migrated from Unix on RISC to Linux on Intel, ComputerWire has learned.
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Retail Therapy: A century-old retailer changes to Linux and cuts not only expenses, but aggravation too
NEW YORK - Harry Roberts says he is not anti-Windows, he's just "anti-spending-money." That's why the chief information officer at Boscov's, a $1 billion department store chain based in Pennsylvania, is slowly moving big chunks of its technology oper |
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Free Can Mean Big Money: The Open Source Economy
A great article that debunks a lot of 'fud' thrown out by closed source companies. |
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Samba beats Windows for performance
Tests by IT Week Labs show the latest version of the open-source Samba file and print server software is 2.5 times faster than Windows Server 2003 in the same role. |
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List of open source software packages
This is a list of open-source software packages: Computer software licensed under an open-source license. |
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Apache still most popular web server on internet
As of May 2004, Apache is on 67.05% of the 50,550,965 sites on the internet!
In case you didn't know, Apache is an Open Source web server that dominates the internet. |
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Open source's threat to Microsoft is growing
LAS VEGAS -- Computer enthusiasts at a conference here this week are learning about the latest technologies and attending sessions about a software program that dominates an important segment of the market.
But contrary to what you might be thinki |
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Open-source database advantages
MySQL is an open source relational database management system.
Linux is overtaking sales of established proprietary operating systems, Apache is dominant in web servers, and languages such as Perl and Python are used everywhere. But is the world r |
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How can free software compete with commercial developers?
The amazing thing about the free vs. proprietary software race is that free software is in it at all. With all the resources larger proprietary software companies have at their command, you'd think their products would be unfailingly easy to use, vi |
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PHP: most popular server-side Web scripting technology
PHP Overtakes Microsoft's ASP as Web's #1 Server-side Scripting Language
Enterprises Embrace Open-Source Technology for Dynamic Web Sites As
Major Business Benefits Drive PHP's Explosive Growth |
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How to Misunderstand Open Source Software Development
How does one explain a "bad rap", especially one that isn't deserved? Open Source Software development suffers from widespread misunderstandings in the media from myths, false claims and disinformation. As a commercial software program and developmen |
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India switches to Linux
BHOPAL India: Madhya Pradesh has shut the door on Bill Gates. The state government schemes will use Linux software. Chief minister Digvijay Singh personally conveyed this to Microsoft boss Bill Gates during an interaction last week in New Delhi. |
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Brazillian government switches to linux
Rio de Janeiro, 2 June (EFE) The Brazilian government plans to migrate from Windows to Linux 80% of all computers in state institutions and state-owned businesses, informed the daily newspaper "Valor". This will be a gradual migration, that will begi |
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Dept. of Homeland Security site switches to Linux from Windows 2000
The United States Department of Homeland Security (www.dhs.gov) changed its servers over to Oracle on Linux last week, after running on Windows 2000 for several months. Experts say that it is unlikely the change is a reaction to "Slammer," the MS SQL |
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Japanese government switches to Linux
Japan has chosen a proposal submitted by a group made up of Fujitsu, IBM Japan and Oki Electric Industry Co. The companies suggest using Linux to manage salary and other personnel data for the nation's 800,000 central government employees in 2005. |
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Wall Street Embraces Linux
Rick Carey has staked his reputation and his job on a project that he concedes is risky--but with potentially huge returns. He is the person in charge of a top-down implementation of Linux software at Merrill Lynch.
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Sourceforge: The ultimate open source repository.
The largest repository of open source projects. |
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